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W. C. EDGE. Chain-Fabric for Bracelets.

No. 228,746. Patented )une 15, 1880.

NA FEIEHS. PHO0 L|THOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D C.

UNITED e STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. EDGE, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. v

CHAIN FABRIC FOR BRACELETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,746, dated June 15, 1880.

Application iled February 20, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM C. EDGE, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Chain Fabric, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in the i con struction and ornamentation of chain work or fabrics forbracelets and other articles made of chain 5 and the object of the invention is to provide the chain-work with an outside solid ornamentation.

Ihe invention consists in making the chainwork for bracelets and other articles with grooved ledges on both edges formed of the chain-work, which are adapted to receive and hold the ends of ornamental cross-bars and other ornamental attachments.

The invention also consists in making the ornamental attachments which are applied to the bracelets so as to -be held by the grooved ledges in a continuous piece, the ornamental parts whereof are connected together at the ends, but separated on the sides, for the purpose of ecouomizing the manufacture of the 'ornamental attachments and giving them the requisite degree of liexibility.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents my improved chain fabric for bracelets, &c., with an outside ornamentation of sin` gle cross -bars. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of Fig. l, taken on line fr. Fig. 3 represents my improved chain fabric for bracelets, Snc., with an outside ornamentation composed of continuous cross-bars. Fig. 4 represents a cross-section of Fig. 3, taken on line y y. Fig. 5 is a perspective and cross-sectional view of one of the single ornamental cross-bars, and Fig. 6 is a perspective and plan view of the continuous or attached cross-bars.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a section of chain fabric, such as is ordinarily used for chain-bracelets, &c., the said chain fabric being either woven or linked together. The edges of the chain are turned over parallel to the outside of the chain to any depth that may be desired, so as to form grooved ledges o a onboth sides.

C represents the single bars, which are a'p' plied to the ornamentation of the outside or face of the chainwork. These bars have projecting ends 11 b, and they are attached to the chain-work by slipping the ends b b under the ledges c c and pushing the bars up side by side, in the manner shown in Fig. 1, so th at the outer surface of the bracelet or chain-work is covered by the Across-bars, and at the edges the chain-work is exposed.

Instead of the separate bars C, I prefer to use for many purposes the continuous or con nected cross-bars, which are shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 6. rIhese are formed by first stamping into suitable form a strip or ribbon of sheet metal, and in making incisions therein alternately from opposite edges, thereby partially separating the subdivisions or bars D D thus formed the one from the other, as at d d. At the ends of these bars D D are projections d', similar to the ends b in the single bars C.

The continuous strips of bars or moldings D are applied to the chain-work by slipping the ends d d' under the ledges a c and pushing the bars up close together, in the manner shown in Fig. 3, and as the ends of every two cross-bars are connected on opposite sides alternately by short bars of the same form and appearance, the effect of this arrangement is to ornament the middle of the chain-work with a continuous crenelated molding, as shown in Fig. 3, which, nevertheless, is sufficiently flexible to permit the use of the chain as a brace let, neck-band, or the like.

I am aware that grooved foundation-plaies holding sectional face plates have already been proposed for bracelets and analogous structures-as, for example, in Patent No. 31,735-and Ido notmake claim to such a structure, which is, moreover, objectionable, as the iiexibility is destroyed by making the grooved ledge in one single piece with the solid fonn- (lation-plate. On bendingthe bracelet the sectional face-plate will bend on the solid ledges; and thus disflgure the device. In fact the said former construction was practically not liexible, and necessitated, therefore, the use of one or more separate hinges.

I claim- 1. The chain fabric A, provided with the grooved ledges a a, to receive and hold the ornamental work applied to the face of the fabric, substantially as described.

2. The chain fabric A, provided with the grooved ledges ce a, in combination with a sc- D, provided with the projecting ends d d', in ries of superposed cross-bars, substantially as combination with the chain fabric A, provided 1o described. with grooved ledges a a, substantially as dc 3. The continuous cross-bars D, connected scribed. 5 together at opposite ends alternately, and pro- WILLIAM CHARLES EDGE.

vided with the projecting ends d d", substan- Witnesses tially as described. VILTON C. DONN,

4. The continuous connected cross-bars D ToMPsoN B. MosHER. 

